Software Engineer I, Discovery

About Us

Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.

We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X,  and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.

About the Role

The Discovery Team in App Experiences manages a wide array of features and systems to help communities form, grow, and thrive on Twitch. These features let people participate in their favorite communities and discover new ones more efficiently. We work hard to bring novel opportunities to the world of streaming both individually and in collaboration with similar streamers. 

Our consumer facing features span both web and mobile surfaces, we’re working hard to build fast, reliable, and easy to understand client-side experiences. This position is primarily focused across the entire stack (React and Golang) but will lean initially more toward backend systems, with future efforts moving more client-side.

This position is in San Francisco, CA.

You Will:

• Work with product managers, technical leads, and other engineers to design, develop, launch, and operate interactive experiences
• Investigate, instrument and solve performance problems
• Build distributed applications at scale
• Collaborate with both your team and related teams - fostering shared understanding of how to solve common problems and deliver solutions 
• Work backwards from customer problems to drive business impact

You Have:

• 1+ Years experience developing software in a professional environment
• Prior experience building consumer-facing products at scale
• Proficient coding skills in modern languages and frameworks such as React, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience with languages/frameworks we use at Twitch: React, Typescript, Golang
• Experience with mobile development
• Experience building software and services using AWS technologies such as ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions
• Familiarity with Twitch, gaming, and/or streaming on Twitch

Perks

• Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance
• 401(k)
• Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible PTO
• Amazon Employee Discount